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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM457_mother-bethel_Philadelphia-PA.html
Mother Bethel is the first African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church in America, founded in 1791. Richard Allen (1760-1831), a former slave, was the founder, and later became the first bishop (1816) of the first African-American denomination in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3TN_cyrus-bustill_Philadelphia-PA.html
Born of white, Black and Native American descent, he bought his freedom and became a baker of bread for Revolutionary troops. A founder of the Free African Society, he later opened a school for Black children while living here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3R6_mower-general-hospital_Philadelphia-PA.html
Described as the largest U.S. Army hospital of its day: designed by noted architect John McArthur, Jr. Here, wounded Civil War soldiers were cared for , Jan 1863-May 1865. On 27 acres extending to Stenton Ave., it had some 3,600 beds and treated o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM3G6_the-johnson-house_Philadelphia-PA.html
Built in 1768 for John Johnson. This was home to three generations of a Quaker family who worked to abolish slavery and improve living conditions for freed African Americans. In the 1850s the house was a station on the Underground Railroad. Here a…